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Pancreaze

Pancreaze is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for Pancreaze’s cash price, and one or two other pharmacies too.
  2. Pancreaze’s savings card works only with insurance from a job or one you bought.

Compare every option

Question
Brand namePancreaze
Authorized genericpancrelipase lipase, pancrelipase amylase, and pancrelipase protease
Regular genericpancrelipase lipase, pancrelipase amylase, and pancrelipase protease
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldAsk the pharmacy
Same as Pancreaze?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

PANCREAZE Savings Card

Savings card from Vivus

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · as little as $0 a fill

The card takes up to $3,500 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on pancreaze.com 

In the maker’s words

“Commercially-insured patients can pay as little as $0 on their co-pay for their PANCREAZE prescription.”

From the maker’s offer on pancreaze.com, checked November 2, 2026. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.

Maker’s card or discount card?

A discount card like GoodRx lowers the pharmacy’s cash price, but for a brand-name drug that price often stays high. Compare it with the maker’s card above. You can usually use one or the other on a fill, not both.

Brand nameWith a free discount coupon

Optum Perks, Optum’s free discount coupon, lists these prices for Pancreaze without insurance. Show the coupon from its page at the pharmacy; it can’t be used with insurance.

From Optum Perks, read November 2, 2026, with no location set. Its page opens on this dose; other doses and pharmacies near you are priced there too. With insurance, check your co-pay first: it may be lower.

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Pancreaze itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now Pancreaze is the only choice; its maker’s savings card can lower what you pay.

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

Pancreaze is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the maker’s savings card is the way to pay less.

See the brand name →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

PANCREAZE ® is indicated for the treatment of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in adult and pediatric patients.

Source: the FDA label for Pancreaze (VIVUS LLC), June 6, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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